Dads Care for Kids ... Who Knew?

One of many frustrating things about getting older is that just because you have discovered a truth — say, dads take care of kids sometimes as well, sometimes better, sometimes worse than moms — it doesn't mean everyone has discovered it.

So, it continues to be a news headline that (as The Chicago Tribune recently put it) More Dads Making Home Their Domain. Apparently (shock, shock ...) it is possible for a mother — a woman, even — to make more money than a dad — a man?!? — and that (can you really believe this) the man (a heterosexual believeitornot) finds fulfillment staying home and taking care of cooking and children (note, not cooking children).

Such unicorn-like fabled creatures apparently actually exist and are creeping across the globe as from a north coast in Canada it is possible to learn that Stay-At-Home Fathers Are a Stalwart Bunch. From the article one can learn that one of hte more stalwart-like aspects of staying at home with children is that the men have to gobs of time listening to the moms in their playgroup complain about their husbands.

Which, perhaps, means that some Surrey, British Columbia, moms were actually doing him a favor when they told a dad trying to join their parenting group to take a hike. [Shout out to RebelDad for the link]. It seems that they needed to protect their children from a man, even if he was a parent with his kid.

And I could have sworn this all wasn't news anymore.